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Hello and welcome to the One Show with Matt Baker. And Alex Jones. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Tonight, a rhyming couplet of guests whose names are a dream for | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Scrabble. Direct from his comedy tour via Tomb Raider and Gladiator, | :00:23. | :00:32. | |
it's Omid Djalili, single score 22 points. Welcome, Omid. And joining | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
us later, the woman bringing peace to warring family businesses, it's | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
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Alex Polizzi. Two Zs, you'll need a blank, minimum 28 points. Imagine | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
that on a trouble score! Unbelievable! Of course, Omid, you | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
must us in Meryl Streep's moment with Pichot, Colin Firth coming to | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
her rescue. I have a quote from Colin Firth, on your stand-up, you | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
provoke the kind of laughter that gives you digestive problems. I'm | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
guessing that is a compliment. not... And not wholly sure about | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
that because... After he won the Oscar, I got a very weird e-mail | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
from Colin Firth. I have done a couple of charity events within, | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
and I must have got into his psyche, because he sent me and e-mail are | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
saying, I had a terrible dream that he performed an exotic dance for me, | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
I thought you should know. I wrote back, it is funny, I had the same | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
dream, and your cheque bounced! He wrote back and said, that is | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
because the exotic dance was wholly unsatisfactory! I think that is the | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
digestive problem, something to do with nausea, not laughter. Speaking | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
of dancing, we will be finding out what Omid is at a later... I would | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
get a bigger laugh! It may or may not involve a pink tutu. If the | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Duchess of Cambridge fancies a night out while her husband is in | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
the Falklands, she could do worse than heading for Liverpool. It is | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
home to a bar run by a charity that is close to her heart. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
The Liverpool is a city that likes to party, and like everywhere else | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
in Britain, blues is the backbone of a night out. As a nation, it is | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
fair to say that we enjoy a drink. And the students are no exception. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
They are not big binge drinkers, but on Wednesday, which is party | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
night for students, having a snifter is all part of the ritual. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Well, tonight, and taking the entire netball team out, and not | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
just out, but Out Out! And it will not be their typical evening | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
experience. Not being much of a midweek drinker myself these days, | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
I thought we would go of the East. What kind of drinks to do? We have | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
got a Bollywood is sour, it depends what you like in a cocktail. A | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Sounds like a normal cocktail menu, but these are all have car free, | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
and that is my surprise. I have taken them to a dry bar. | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
is a dry bar? Non-alcoholic? He is definitely warmer than outside. | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
is nice. I quite like the atmosphere. Leaving the girls to | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
their cocktails, I find out more about the thinking behind the Brink, | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
Liverpool's first modern dry bar looks like any other, opening late | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
into the night, but in a scene where booms rules, surely it is a | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
hard sell. The first thing you expect is that it serves alcohol, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
and if you take that away, for most people it takes away the reason for | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
coming. We want to dispel the myth that Tabar has got to serve alcohol. | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
You can enjoy yourself without drinking alcohol. There are many | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
are places to do it, but not here. The bar is the brainchild of | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
charity Action on addiction, which is close to the heart of Damien | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
Kelly. Liverpool has got a huge recovery seen, and they have | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
nowhere to call home. That is one of the reasons why Brink came about. | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Surely it cannot survive if you're only customers who are going | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
through recovery. If you do not ring for control, medicinal reasons, | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
and if you do, it is about a more sensible approach. But in a city | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
which tops the tables for alcohol related hospital admissions, in a | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
country with a taste of the hard stuff, what is the Brink up | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
against? The problem with nightlife is that it has become the same as | :04:45. | :04:52. | |
going out to get drunk. They are environments designed to get people | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
to an. Professor Marc Bell studies our drinking habits for a living. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
We identified that about half of people will not go into the towns | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
and cities at night because they think they are people where -- | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
places where people just go to get drunk. We need alternatives, places | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
like dry bars, other things to do other than drink as heavily as they | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
possibly can. The professor might believe that dry bars of a future, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
but with the party hearty crowd swallow his way of thinking and | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
even set foot in a bar without booze? To be honest, most people | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
have fun when they are drinking. To be honest, I wouldn't consider | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
myself having fun there. If I was low and cash, yeah, I would. Or if | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
I was driving. I would consider it, yes, I would like to see what it is | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
like, see the difference. And what about our students? Their memory of | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
the night may be much clearer than usual, but was it as much fun? Time | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
for the post-match debrief. We have a table full of fruity drinks, you | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
have certainly had your five a day, but have you had a good evening | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
without alcohol? Have you survived? With a big group of people, it is a | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
nice environment. Anybody honestly at any point this evening thought | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
to themselves, I could do with a drink? Not that I want one, but if | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
it was on offer, I probably would have had wine. It is more force of | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
habit, it is what you are used to doing. It is strange that it is not | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
on offer. The acid test, are you going to go immediately from here | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
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down the pub? No! It is bedtime for Interesting, thanks ever so much, | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
Matt EU. The girls said that the atmosphere was very different. From | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
a stand-up point of view, do you prefer to play to a crowd that is | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
completely sober or slightly lubricated? That is a specifically | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
British question, because I have performed around the world, and | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
people do not have to be so drunk that they go out and try to buy a | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
bus ticket from a chocolate vending machine last projectile vomiting | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
from their left nostril. Is it easier with that kind of crowd? | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
people think audiences have to be drunk, but actually the comedy | :07:14. | :07:20. | |
clubs are interesting, because in London people do like to be well | :07:20. | :07:26. | |
oiled with drink. Sometimes, N Cs tried to throw you off the scent. I | :07:26. | :07:32. | |
have seen places where the MC says, ladies and gentlemen, do you like | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
poets? No! You like Americans? No! Ladies and gentlemen, an American | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
poet! They will try to ruin the night, but that is why I prefer the | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
theatres where people have paid money to see you. They are more | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
predisposed towards laughing at what you do. Liverpool was one of | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the cities you visited during your MAM at 10 month tour of duty, which | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
is nearing its end. What were the highlights? No highlights, I'm | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
afraid. I will tell you why, I thought I would get a big tour | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
passed to watch DVDs, a lovely bar. I do not drink, that is another | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
thing that people do not understand. People say, do you want a pint? I | :08:15. | :08:22. | |
do not drink, do you just want a half? People do not get it! What | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
happened was within the first day, we were going through Wales, I got | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
very sick, so I said, can I give the bus back? They said, no, we | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
want to keep it. I have to follow everyone on the bus. I can see them | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
watching films, knocking back shots, and I am back there, going, I am | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
paying for that! They just close the curtain. At the service station, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
are you coming for lunch? We are watching back to the future! They | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
do not care. It is a real waste of time and money. I'm having a | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
terrible time, thanks for asking! It is coming to an end. No, it has | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
been good, wonderful. It is coming to the Hammersmith Apollo at the | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
end of the month, I have been going to towns I have never heard of. | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
Have you heard of Bridlington? course! Scarborough? I have never | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
been there. We have been talking about dancing tonight, you're not | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
ditching the dancing, because you are taking part in Let's Dance. How | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
are you feeling about that? feeling that it could be good, I | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
have probably bitten off more than I can chew. On my tour, I was not | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
dancing at the beginning, but I got an embossed card, it was a threat, | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
done in the style of an invitation, dance or die. A posh threat? | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
are letting your people down. It was signed by William Hague, which | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
is quite bizarre. But I thought I would do Let's Dance for Comic | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
Relief because we have got a concept which could be great. I | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
mean... Look at that! This is warming up. Is it sporty? This is a | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
warm-up of us trying to get... Look at that! The moves are pretty | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
specific, quite ambitious. That is not the piece, that is just warming | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
up, trying to get us warmed up. ambitious is it? They say it is one | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
of the most ambitious things anyone has ever tried, so it could be | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
greater or... Serious? It could be great, but I am a risk-taker. | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
all for a good cause. Now then, either way, your mum and dad used | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
to run a business, is that right? Yes. The next film is about family | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
businesses. Would you go into business with your brothers and | :10:43. | :10:52. | |
sisters? No. Well, many people do. In fact, up over 3 million therms | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
from corner shops to large companies are run by families. In a | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
moment, Alex Polizzi tells us why she has become the fixer, rescuing | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
business plans in crisis. But first, how working with your nearest and | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
dearest can stretch relations to the limit. You sit down and have a | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
nice time, I go home on Friday with no soul! I have to cover everybody | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
in the shop. Oh, yeah, everybody else as a day off, I have not had | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
one since January! OK. Take a chill pill or you will have a stroke. | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
least I will get a rest in bed! who would be prepared to go into | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
business with a close relative? Money and family does not always | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
mix. There is no way I would go into a family business. Yeah, I | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
think it would create quite a few arguments, put it that way. I say | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
what has to be done, he does it if he feels like it. Running a family | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
business myself, I am aware of the pitfalls, but I know it can be | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
hugely rewarding. How do you make sure your family enterprise does | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
not become one long-running domestic? With family businesses | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
employing more than 9 million people in the UK, I have come to | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
get some expert advice on what to look out for when working with your | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
nearest and dearest. Stress is a high pressure forced from running a | :12:14. | :12:18. | |
business when it is inserted into a family, and you can see how people | :12:18. | :12:23. | |
who take the greatest strain show that strain. She is a little bit | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
stressed! Just a little bit. just... Stressed his like... I feel | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
a bit stressed out, I am more than stressed out, I really feel beyond | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
stressed-out. One of the prime functions of families is to buffer | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
the stresses that people have. You come home from work and you have | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
got your family to help you feel better again. So you have recovery | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
space. With families in businesses, maybe you have put your business | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
into your recovery space, and you have got nowhere to go for TLC. | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
What you do not want is the family to destroy the business and the | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
business to destroy the family. doesn't work, and there needs to be | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
one person in charge. Who that person is, I don't know. �50,000 | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
now, I will walk away, you will never see me again, OK? That is | :13:12. | :13:18. | |
what you have said. We can do it without you! We are not saying that | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
at all! This conversation has gone too far, anyway. I am not going to | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
go on with this any more. It is... There we go! So what is the great | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
thing about having a family business? I think the magic is | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
really the pleasure of shared ownership, something that you | :13:42. | :13:52. | |
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A family business is definitely a labour of love. But if you are to | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
make a success of it, you have to learn how to leave any family | :14:02. | :14:12. | |
As we said, in the series you rescue family firms and give them | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
some advice. You've got plenty of experience in this field. Your | :14:16. | :14:23. | |
grandfather was Lord Forte, from the Forte hotel chain. What would | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
be your tips? About how to be successful? Make sure you define | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
your areas of responsibility clearly, so you don't tread on each | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
other's toes too much. That creates a lot of attention otherwise. Make | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
sure that you keep your professional life professional, so | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
any family arguments should be left at the office door. Try and avoid | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
too much into a family banter. Especially for embryo -- employees | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
who aren't part of the family, otherwise they could feel excluded. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
The key to a business is the fact you do take your work home and you | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
are constantly, the passion you have together is so important. Are | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
there any tips for leaving it at the door? I do think you take your | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
work come, but that's a different problem. It's when you bring your | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
home stresses into work that the business really suffers. I've | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
worked with my mum, I've worked with my uncle, I've worked with my | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
sister, my husband. Your husband, baking. Does he bring his work home | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
with him? Every single night. But I understand that. It's a business | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
that the share, we built it up together. I was a baker for him for | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
a year. I do get the stresses and strains he is under. He needs to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
detox from his day by talking to me. Do you ever get to that point when | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
you've worked so much with your family that when you get together | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
you've got nothing to talk about? Yes, I'm on holiday sometimes with | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
my mum and she's talking to me about work. I ain't, like, please, | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
can't we just lie here by the pool and read a book? Hey you are giving | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
the Kettley's some advice on tomorrow's show. You've got an | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
awful lot of Rangers here, an awful lot of stock. It all mergers in, | :16:11. | :16:18. | |
it's a bit beige and boring. I would struggle to find one thing I | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
wanted to buy in here. I'm just saying that as a matter of fact. | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
Downstairs, it's like an old people's home. You are quite harsh. | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
But you've got to be honest. I have not -- you have not seen what it | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
was like downstairs, it looked like an old people's home. It was awful. | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
They seem to take it on board. quite firm but am very fair. The | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
amazing thing is when I'm going to all of these families, usually they | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
know the advice that I'm giving them. It down, they already | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
acknowledge it but they've been unable to act upon it. I do a lot | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
of kicking but I don't have to push too hard. It sounds like it's all | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
common sense. Yeah S. I'm not an expert on a furniture store. What I | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
am good at his business. The lessons I've learned in my business, | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
I transferred them into other businesses. I met a young comic he | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
was a staunch atheist. I said, is a theism like a religion to you? He | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
said, yes, it's the religion of common sense. I said, what do you | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
base that religion on? He said, but Ten Commandments. I thought that | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
would get a bigger laughs. Fixer continues tomorrow night on | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
BBC Two at 8pm. Bill Oddie has enjoyed a hugely successful career, | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
first as a comedian and actor and later as a wildlife presenter. | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
when he was young he needed a century of his own and founded in a | :17:50. | :18:00. | |
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surprising place. We are in Birmingham at King Edward's School. | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
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I came here between 54 and 60. It's We are in another era. The | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
overwhelming feeling is one of affection. I had a pretty fabulous | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
time here. I thought it was terrific. In my day they did and | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
torture the little boys like that. -- they did and torture. I'd been | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
put into a classics form but I was terrible at it. First report out of | :18:44. | :18:51. | |
a class of 27, I achieved in Latin the position of 27th. It says, this | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
is a weak subject but he struggles along cheerfully and has made some | :18:55. | :19:03. | |
progress. My home life was a little bit odd. I was brought up by my dad | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
and his mother, my granny. My mum was unfortunately committed to a | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
mental hospital. She was diagnosed as being schizophrenic, and that | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
was where she was right the way throughout my childhood and teenage | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
years. I didn't really know her. A lot of my friends didn't really | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
know because I hardly ever took anybody back to the house. I never | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
thought of myself as deprived of a mother or anything. Looking back, | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
home wasn't very interesting. I tended to spend my time doing | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
something else, going out to the local reservoir with my binoculars | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
and bird watching. That was one of the things. The other thing was | :19:45. | :19:54. | |
making the school day a lot longer than it was. The school was... What | :19:54. | :20:02. | |
ever the building work is... It was instead of my home. I lived here. | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
Sport was a revelation when I came here. The playing fields were | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
cricket pitches, I played a lot of tennis... The other one, rugby. It | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
was quite a successful rugby school. A memorial from that time, these | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
are my rugby colours. It doesn't quite fit, never did. I believe | :20:26. | :20:32. | |
that somewhere around is one of my team mates from long ago. Is there | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
anybody on who you recognise? ought to -- or two. To me, the | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
rugby was one of the be-all and end-alls of being at school. Was it | :20:46. | :20:52. | |
important to you? Yes, and sport in general. My great shame was that I | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
was captain of the team that lost the Cup, after many years of | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
victory. Apparently, I was talking to some people at school now, they | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
haven't won for years. We started the demise. Maybe! This was the | :21:09. | :21:16. | |
scene of my first performances. This was about 56 or 57. It was a | :21:16. | :21:22. | |
review with comedy and songs. I've got a credit here. Playing | :21:22. | :21:30. | |
harmonica. A couple of years later, so just before I went, 20th July | :21:30. | :21:37. | |
and 21st 1959, we have this, it was written by myself. We got terribly | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
good reviews. On two successive nights, the large audiences | :21:43. | :21:48. | |
applauded. The standard was very high. One of the things that | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
strikes me is how many of the things I've gone on to do through | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
the whole of my life have gone on at this school. People talk of me | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
as part of the Cambridge MA banned the book Lights, but it was here | :21:59. | :22:07. | |
that I got into those things. -- and the Footlights. | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
On School, is this fact or pure stand-up? You've sat 49 papers of | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
A-levels. That is true. It's all for, I know. I did four A-levels, | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
13 times. You are laughing at that, aren't you?! Have you got your | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
qualifications? I never got them. I was tremendously deluded. I'd do an | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
exam and wait for the results. I messed up one bit of that paper, it | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
could be a B. It would be an effort. I did them three years in a row. It | :22:46. | :22:56. | |
was a total of 49 papers. I didn't really get any. You'd never toll -- | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
tell from the filmography and films you've been in. You tried for 16 | :23:03. | :23:11. | |
drama schools as well. You know this as well! Yes, 16. Eight drama | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
schools, twice. The Welsh School of Drama, they were very kind because | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
the second time I said, what am I doing wrong? They said, we think | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
you are very arrogant and you may have the fat gene. You are FE now | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
and you've got hair but we see it all going wrong. It's true. They | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
said to me, we think that you have enough confidence to try something | :23:36. | :23:42. | |
out yourself. Drama school, we like to mould people, just go out and do | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
it. We won't embarrass you any more now. Despite hundreds of alleged | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
sightings so far, there is no conclusive evidence that big cats | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
are running the British countryside. However, on on the Ardnamurchan | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
Peninsula in Lochaber, a rare species of cat does live in the | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
wild. As Mike Dilger discovered, it's nearly as elusive... Judging | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
from that match, I'm not surprised! This area in Scotland is a | :24:09. | :24:15. | |
stronghold for a rare and shy cat. Wildcats have to be one of the most | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
elusive mammals in Britain, with only about 400 remaining in the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
world. They have to be one of the rarest as well. It is an animal | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
that I have never seen before. Add to that they do everything they can | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
to avoid being detected. Wild cats have rarely been filmed. This would | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
it was taken in 2008. But their elusiveness hasn't deterred | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
scientists from doing everything they can to protect the last | :24:43. | :24:50. | |
remaining wild cats. Appear in west Scotland, there's a very special | :24:50. | :24:56. | |
wild cat project taking place. I'm keen to get involved. Adrian Davies, | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
from the Scottish wildcat Association, is dedicated to | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
preserving our only native feline. And having spent his life trying to | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
track them down, he's all too aware of how rare they are. I've only | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
seen five in the wild. I've seen a few in zoos but five in the wild | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
over 40 Ord years is not many. Especially in this landscape. It's | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
like a needle in a haystack. How different are they to the common | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
garden cat that people would know? They are quite similar in some ways. | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
They have the stripy markings that a tabby cat has, but they have a | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
very distinctive tail which is very stripy and has a dark black tip, as | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
well as being very Borshi. That is what gives it its character. They | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
are also fears. Incredibly fierce. Hence the name the Scottish tiger. | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
Wildcats are usually larger than the average Tabley and play an | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
important role in controlling the populations of rabbits and rodents. | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
That being so rare, little is known about them. So Adrian is trying to | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
catch them to find out more. Hopefully it will tell us a lot | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
more about wild cats in this area, and also build up some information | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
about how many we have. Then it will extrapolate and we will | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
hopefully estimate the population in Scotland. Adrian is concerned | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
they may be even fewer than 400 wildcats left. And it is because of | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
a threat from feral cats. Once pets, many feral populations have lived | :26:26. | :26:32. | |
in the wild for several generations. And they are causing problems. | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
wild cats can potentially breed with feral cats as well. That is | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
unfortunate because it dilutes the pure wild cat population. It can | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
become a different type of cat. They can potentially pass disease | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
into the wild population. If we don't do something now then we may | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
actually lose the wild cat. To try and stop them interbreeding, Adrian | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
is trying to lure in the feral cats with bait and catch them. But | :27:00. | :27:06. | |
having lived wild for so long, these cats are canny. It is | :27:07. | :27:09. | |
noticeable they are going all around the cage but not in them. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
You have caught quite a few here. We've already caught probably 15 or | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
16 cats here. What do you do with the cats once you've cracked them? | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
We take them to the Vets. They are Spader and neutered and released. | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
So they can't hybridise with genuine Scottish wildcats. Yes. And | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
they have a small clip taken on their ear so we can instantly | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
recognise them if they are recaptured. It is interesting to | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
see cats that are almost but not quite wild. It makes me want to see | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
a wild cat even more. Although the closest I managed to get to where | :27:50. | :27:56. | |
wild cat would these troublesome barrels, with Adrian's help the | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
wildcat population will hopefully increase and my chances of seeing | :27:59. | :28:08. | |
On Friday night we asked you to send in your jokes. You send in | :28:08. | :28:17. | |
hundreds. We will read some now. Olmert, will you pick us off? | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
I was a kid people used to cover me with cream and put cherries on my | :28:21. | :28:24. | |
head... It was hard growing up in the gateaux. That's from Jackie | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
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I used to have an origami business but it folded. Owain Davies, | :28:36. | :28:45. | |
Swansea. I just made my hamster a strong coffee. I don't want him | :28:45. | :28:53. | |
falling asleep at the wheel. you've seen one shopping centre | :28:53. | :29:03. | |
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